The Shoppers Drug Mart flyer, page 2, "An Eye on Good Health section,
Saturday, October 15, 2003.
The advertisement says the following:
- Immune system booster
- Used by NHL teams
- Capsules 20s - $9.99 may help reduce the frequency of getting colds and flus.
The package itself says: A concentrate of Immune-boosters from North American Ginseng
Twenty times more powerful than echinacea.
This is absurd. I went to your web site where you state the following:
"This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any
disease"
The web site doesn't have the statement "Twenty times more powerfuol than
echinacea"
You say that strengthening the immune system is the key to maintaining good
health. Where is your evidence that this is true?
I have some serious questions for CV Technologies.
Why would I want an immune booster? If I have an autoimmune disease, why
would I want that. Are there warning on your labels about this?
Do the Shoppers Drug Mart counter clerks or pharmacists know the difference?
Have they read the Shoppers Drug Mart web site so that they can
intelligently discuss this?
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Does the packaging and advertising flyers contain warnings?
Your claims are absurd when comparing Ginseng with Echinacea. Since most
echinacea product are not standardized, and the claims for echinacea are
also absurd. My feeling is that if Echinacea does nothing, so your product
is 20 times more likely to do nothing.
Why would any consumer pay that much for a product that might reduce the
frequency of a cold or the flu?
Some of your press releases indicate that it has gone through Phase II
testing by the FDA, and has an IND. The FDA has refused to tell me that your
Phase II trials are underway.
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Why it that?
Why is the FDA hiding this from the public, while all the time your company
continues to make clinical claims on its labels and in its advertising.
Natural Health Products in this country are coming under regulation soon.
I'd like to see the evidence that your product will do what you claim.
Right now, all I see is an attempt to sell the public without having the
evidence.
Dr. Terry Polevoy
938 King St. West
Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 1G4 Canada
519-725-2263 -- 725-4953 fax
E-mail: [email protected]
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